Claudia Lopez

Identification and development of new business opportunities within the mining market, with focus on IT turnkey solutions. Acquisition was made via presentations and consulting meetings with mid and senior level with a view to developing new projects for key customers in this area. In case of specific tenders: management of bidding processes including technical, financial and compliance issues.

Bid management of EPC offers for Photovoltaic Power Plants connected to medium or high voltage Grids. The tasks include identification of customer’s requirements to define the specifications for the project, coordination of an internal cross functional team (international), handling offers from external and internal (Siemens) suppliers, EPC price calculation along with the preparation of the technical and the commercial offer letters after internal approval. Magnitude of the projects USD 200 million

Managed a project team consisting of both internal group members and a network of international IC suppliers (TI, STM), PCB suppliers (BMK) and firmware suppliers. Developed the strategy to decide the technology to use and the provider to implement the project. Identified further potential to expand the application. The aim of the project was to develop a power line communication (PLC) module in the area of Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI) using OFDM modulation according to PRIME standard.

Responsible for specific evaluations and assessments. Examples include create Business case for the replacement of the core microcontroller from an LCR device, investigate and compare NTA and OMS MBus standards for Smart Metering, functionality tests of wired and wireless NTA devices, proposal for future developments.

Sales of Professional equipments to Companies. Market Allocation: Medical and Mining Markets. Developed the medical market from defining the sales and distribution strategy to acquiring key clients. Achieved plans in 2006 and grew business by 200% in 2007.

Design and built of an automatic equipment for evaporating solvent in a nitrogen current along with its control system based in embedded systems for analyzing environmental samples. The equipment obtained the first place in the contest of Tech nology and Business 2005 of the international institute for the enterprise innocation and got its patent in 2006 in Chile.

Development of PCB (Hardware) and Software (Microcontroller) for new Medical equipments and mantain the existing ones. The Medical equipment consisted in ECG monitor and oxymetry and non invasive blood pressure sensor.

Control and Automation, Biomedical Engineering